as an aroace person with limited sexual experience, no interest in watching porn, and poor sex ed as a teen, there IS something simultaneously funny and vaguely tragic about being 28 adult years old and realising how extremely tiny your frame of reference is for genitalia and deciding you should expand this to better understand bodies (yours and others). and then you're just there like "okay so what the fuck do I even google right now, anyway"

Large Labia Project

Labia Library

Breast Gallery-Nonsexualized Images of real, anonymously submitted breasts

Critique My Dick Pic [tumbex archive]-real submitted dick centric nudes

thank you (i think?)

why wouldn't it be thank you? you expressed interest in sexual education materials related to genital body diversity, and i keep these resources on hand for exactly that purpose.

it's natural to be curious about bodies--yours and others. the presence or lack of sexual intent motivating that curiosity is irrelevant. they're just body parts

I also found one of my favorites I couldn't find this morning: The Great Wall of Vulva and their Labia Library

sorry, my gratitude was real, my uncertainty was @ me ("am i sure i actually want to spend my evening looking at genitals or was i using the difficulty of knowing what to google as an excuse not to learn things") lol

do you have any resources for trans bodies, especially transmasc bodies? i am interested in better understanding what changes i might expect as someone on testosterone, but though i found references to photo projects re: bottom growth in a few places, all the links were dead

totally, the London Transgender Clinic and Dr. Keelee MacPhee have a variety of before and after photos related to various gender affirmation procedures.

i think that r/GrowYourTDick is the best repository of images of specifically trans masculine bottom growth. I can't comment on the culture of the forum, but there is absolutely a lot of images of transmasculine genitalia and extensive discussion of physical changes.

For (relatively*) trustworthy information, Hudson's FTM Resource Guide contains a lot of information about medical side effects and Things To Generally Be Aware Of, like increased risk for yeast infections and tips for managing locker rooms/swimming. *I can't verify that this information is up to date

I'm not directly connected to any trans masc transition support networks, but i know that discord is a thriving space for transition support and information sharing. i think it would be relatively easy to find positive community there. they often compile resources and information for members as well as provide topical discussion spaces. here's the disboard listings for public trans masc oriented servers

and this is just a really beautiful series of portraits of trans masculine people.

that about taps me out on resources!

no, I lied, I'm not done. I spent way too long looking for this photography archive documenting trans nude portraits specifically. lost to the ether. found other stuff though:

Archive of Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits by Loren Cameron, which includes images of genitalia in its "Genital Reconstruction" section, page 46. Portraits of clothed trans masculine people other than the author begin on page 34 in the "New Man Series."

A Genitoplasty Diary by Lou Sullivan (1984-1987) (no images but fascinating)

the evergreen Trans Bodies, Trans Selves

not useful at all, but an extremely cool in-browser recreation of a 90s mac in order to run a 90s trans information CD-Rom.

thanks! sharing for the sake of anyone else interested too

yeah there's so many dead links out there it's tragic. sometimes you even get as far as the artist's website and they'll have a page for the project but then the project is gone and you just get a 404. i'm guessing the increasing hostility of internet providers and stuff towards nudity/nsfw content and also the general atmosphere for trans people has an impact on the safety and practicalities of continuing to host stuff like that :(

if he was still alive I know in my heart that Terry Pratchett would have done a bit about Igors and Igorinas doing gender confirmation surgery by now. going into a lab full of bubbling vials and picking out a penis from a tank the way you pick a lobster. that one, please. you gotta be careful though because they'll really try to upsell you into getting two or three installed. people going to the clinic as pairs and just having parts swapped out for a discounted rate. maybe you actually just trade brains, that's even easier. Igorth have already been doing that thurgery for thenturieth.

#one day an igor forgets the lock the cage and a pack of penises escapes into ankh-morpork#the watch spends the next three weeks rounding them up

how DARE you leave this in the tags (affectionate)

Everyone knew it was best not to look too closely at Igor's jars.

Vimes was beginning to wish he had looked more closely at the most recent additions before Igor came lurching up the stairs to inform him:

"They have ethcaped, thir."

"Escaped. What has escaped, Igor."

"Thome of my.. appendageth, thir."

"Appendages."

"Yeth, thir. Of the... intimate variety."

"Of the intimate..." Vimes trailed off as the dawning horror overwhelmed his vocal cords.

He rallied. "Igor. HOW have they escaped? They are not known for their... perambulatory abilities."

"Really, thir? I've alwayth found them to have a mind of their own at timeth."

Vimes was staying calm. Yes. That was it. He was staying very calm. Definitely NOT thinking AT ALL about how Vetinari and... Good lord, The Times, would react to marauding pack of penises. Would it be a pack? Or would they go off on their own?

"I wath exthperimenting with cuthtom grown oneth, you know. For thothe who cannot grow their own."

"Err... what? Of course you were. I mean. Very good."

Pictured: An Igor harvesting appendages

#[a loud crash is heard from the lab] #[another igor runs past with a giant butterfly net. stopping briefly at the door to shriek 'THE VULVATHS''] (via @the-wave-finally-broke)

It turns out to be a brilliant feat of advertisement, as the people too shy or uncertain to go visit Igor rightaway effectively get a chance to discretely window-shop in public.

An unfortunate side effect being that a small girl, denied of her rightful need to be a Horse Girl by the limitations of being a native Ankh-Morpork child[1], would have adopted one of the larger Appendages of the pack and named it Free Willy. Her insistence that she could understand her pet through a bond of mutual sympathy was both touching and troubling, as was her announcement that Free Willy did not want to be attached to a governing body and forced into service, saddled with clothing, or made to perform tricks for audiences. With no Igor having the heart [2] to take it from her, the child was allowed to keep Free Willy, who lived for five healthy years in her family’s pigeon loft and eventually passed away from natural causes after a battle with another fighting cock. The child went on to write a well-acclaimed children’s book, The Willy that Would Be Free, which was, necessarily, a pop-up book.

[1] where an ordinary working class child CAN form a magical bond with a horse, in the form of a pie, labeled as beef.

[2] ha

there are so many words to use in place of “penis” in regards to smut. there’s dick. or shaft. we got cock. member. organ. length. hell, even manhood! all are acceptable replacements.

but what do we have for the testicles? nuts? no thank you. ballsac or, lord forbid, just sac? i’d literally rather be tarred and feathered. using their government name and just calling them testicles? take me out back and gimme the ol’ yeller treatment.

how has the english language evolved so much yet we have no acceptable word for testicles in a sexy context? how can we claim we’ve advanced as a society when the best word for describing when two characters are fucking nasty and the noble and mighty testes are swaying about is balls?

BALLS

wanna run that one by me again, champ?

Here ya go. My apologies.

cheers, mate.

you make an incredibly valid point as all of those cock replacements give me pause, but they don’t pack the same yank-me-outta-the-story-sucker-punch as balls does. i’d even go so far as to say balls slaps me in the face. balls smacks into you. i’m not fond of the way fondling must be described. it’s a hairy predicament, if i may say. one that makes me want to give it the sack. but alas, it’s one that seems to stand the teste-ment of time.

I’ve gone to the women’s restroom a lot in my life, and not once have I ever seen genitalia besides my own while there. No penis, no vulva, nothing.

I’ve literally seen a bathroom full of baby lizards, one time a whole fucking fish on the floor, and someone come out of the stall with a plate, knife, and fork like they just ate a meal before I’ve seen genitals. Why would I ever be worried about seeing some woman with her cock out

Truly, this!

…Not even in that all-glass ladies’ room in the chicken restaurant in Chur. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

...ETA: I should really explain a little more about this.

I was in and out of Switzerland fairly often on various bits of book and media business in the late 90's / early 00's. One part of the country that I/we (@petermorwood was with me sometimes) wound up passing through frequently was the ancient and beautiful little city of Chur, in canton Graubuenden.

One time when Peter was with me we finished up with whatever we were doing there that day (I think maybe that was the "Buy Romansch Dictionaries And Grammars" trip) and looked around for somewhere to have lunch. We came across a restaurant that specialized in chicken dishes, and the menu looked promising, so in we went.

When we were pretty much finished with lunch (which was quite good), I went downstairs to use the ladies' room. Even from the outside it looked surprisingly posh for such a casual place. It had a heavy frosted-glass door, and by the door, a signed certificate stating that this restroom had been created for the restaurant by the renowned Swiss designer Philippe Starck.

"Wow," I said, and went in.

And then just stopped and stared... because nearly everything in it was made of clear glass. Everything. Particularly the stalls.

"Well," I said finally, "what the hell?!" Because I really needed to pee. There was no one else in there, though. And (having been a nurse in my previous life) I knew perfectly well how to pee really fast if I had to. If it did...? Well, I'd burn that bridge when I came to it.

So I went into the first stall in the line, shut the door and threw the bolt...

And all the glass around me went frosted.

I don't do the jaw-drop thing often, but I did it then. This was at the very beginning of the time when smart glass was first being used in some quite expensive architecture. I absolutely had not expected to see it in a ladies' room. But plainly Philippe was having a bit of a Smart Glass Moment, and in a really playful mode.

So for a minute or three more (I didn't have to pee that badly, as it turns out) I did what any other self-respecting geek would do: I flipped that bolt back and forth about twenty times, to watch the glass do its frosted/unfrosted thing. It was fabulous. Then I sat down and got on with business; and after, went upstairs to tell Peter what I'd found.

"You go right down there and take a leak," I said. "I want to know whether they've got those in the men's room too."

So he did that. And you can read his report on that experience here. :)

(FYI: The restaurant's long since changed hands, and so has the menu, but it was at the location now occupied by this restaurant, named after the supposedly haunted mountain that overlooks the city from the northwest. It's also the "brewery tap" for the local beer that's also named after the mountain. The erstwhile chicken restaurant had a huge mosaic mural covered with chickens, which you can see in the banner on the newer restaurant's homepage, and [hinted at] on the Calanda's current menu. Whether or not the amazing toilets are still there, I have no idea. But I intend to go back there, some time, and find out...)

Yep, and that's pretty much everybody's pov on the subject, but it's important to remember that these laws are not meant to "solve" a genuine "problem", and never were. They were meant to create conflict to fracture society, and act as flashpoints for building communities of hate. They are meant to seed "Propaganda of the Deed" that Republicans can then use for political organizing.

The Republican party wanted to recruit more republicans and make the republicans it had more rabid, to work them deeper into the cult, and they decided harassing, assaulting, and legally persecuting trans people was a good way to do that.